Instructions / Assembly

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7. MULTIPLYING RABBITS
Watch two rabbits multiply into six!
PROPS USED: All 6 Multiplying Rabbits
THE SECRET: You put more rabbits in a person’s hand than he or
she thinks.
SECRET SETUP: Push out the rabbits from the foam piece. Put
the four baby rabbits into your pocket. Place the two large rabbits
(mama and papa) on the table.
SHOW:
1. Ask for a volunteer to help you do this trick. Point to the mama
and the papa rabbit on the table.
2. With your right hand, pick up one of the rabbits. Say “I’ll keep
papa rabbit.” As you say this, open your left hand and PRETEND
to place the rabbit inside. This takes practice!
2A. With your right hand, place the rabbit onto your left palm and
begin to close your left hand over the fingers of your right hand.
2B. As your left hand closes over the fingers of your right hand,
remove your right hand and the rabbit. Continue closing your left
hand and pretend that the rabbit is still inside.
3. Immediately pick up the rabbit on the table with your right
hand. You now have two rabbits in your right hand. Squeeze both rabbits between your fingers and thumb.
It will look like you are holding only one rabbit.
4. Say to the volunteer, “You hold mama rabbit.” Place the rabbits in your right hand into the volunteer’s
hand. Before letting go of the rabbits tell the volunteer to squeeze the rabbit tightly, so it doesn’t jump out.
As the volunteer closes his or her fingers, remove your hand.
4A. The volunteer now thinks that you are holding one rabbit and they are holding the other. But you know
better! Your hand is FIGURE 1 and the volunteer’s hand is FIGURE 2.
5. Next say, “Would you like papa to go to mama?” When the volunteer says “yes,” open your fist slowly
while asking the volunteer to open his or her hand to reveal two rabbits. See FIGURE 3. It will look like
your rabbit jumped into the volunteer’s hand.
6. While the audience is amazed by this magic, put your hand in your pocket and scrunch up the baby
rabbits in your hand. Then take your hand out of your pocket.
7. Say, “Do you know what rabbits are famous for?” Take the mama and papa rabbit and put them in the
hand holding the baby rabbits. Scrunch them together.
8. Reveal all 6 rabbits in your hand!
8. HANDY RABBITS
The rabbits keep jumping out of your pocket and into your hand!
MATERIALS: 3 Baby Multiplying Rabbits
SECRET SETUP: Hide one of the rabbits secretly in your right hand, and put the other two on the table in
front of you.
SHOW:
1. Pick up one of the rabbits with your right hand and put that rabbit and the secret rabbit into your left
hand. Count "One rabbit in the hand!” as you do this.
2. With your right hand, pick up the remaining rabbit from the table and pretend to leave it in your pocket,
but secretly hide it in your hand again. Say “One rabbit in the pocket!” as you do that.
3. Now open your left hand and show that there are still 2 rabbits. Tell the audience that you will try again.
4. Put the two rabbits from your left hand back on the table, and repeat the trick again!
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